Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan' - summer flowering

[SouthPark]

This is from a division of Rth. Dal's Emperor 'Allan' ----- which developed its bud in warm temperatures, leading to full yellow - no red colours at all.

The division comes from the same plant as the division shown in a few months ago in September -- at click here. Only difference is ------ different pot.

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[DirtyCoconuts]

Super cool. Do you have any idea what triggers the bloom. Why one would come early with red and one without? Clearly, sept to dec is a big enough difference to explain the change in the flowers( light water etc) but why would it bloom at both times if it’s nutes were different??

Stunning no matter what

I am a gastric person, clearly, but this one makes me think of soft scrambled eggs mmmmmm with a bit of salt and hot sauce(there’s that red! Lol)

Pic of the whole plant if you can, please

[SouthPark]

Hi DC!

I think the just the health state of this sort of orchid triggers the bloom - as I noticed that the new pseudobulbs just produce sheaths - and looks like 100% chance of flower spikes. I have some other catts that are like that too ----- pretty much 100% chance of spiking for every regular size bulb that comes out.

But I have some other catts that don't get sheaths and/or spikes for every bulb. Quite interesting.

But as for the red colouring. I heard from the people that had been growing this sort of yellow mini-catt ------ that they detect a temperature dependence of the red colouring. The bud development and flowering in relatively cold conditions is noticed to produce yellow flowers with red ---- and sometimes with the pink/magenta tinge around the lip perimeter. And for relatively warm to hot temperatures ------ much less red colours, sometimes even full yellow -- no red at all.

I'll get a pic of the whole plant for you DC. No problem at all!

hahahaha ..... you made me hungry from that egg description!!!!!!

[SouthPark]

DC! I took a pic of the whole plant this afternoon, next to the other pots - basically all the same plant (as I just took some bulbs off the plant from the plant on the left-most side).

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[SouthPark]

I added a couple of photos in the previous post with the yellow flower next to the Rlc. Memoria Helen Brown for size comparison. Definitely a mini-catt hehe.